Advertising device



Oct. 2, 1928.

F. c. MEYERs ET A1.l

ADVERTISING DEVICE IN VEN TOR.

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Patented Oct. 2, 1928. f

UNITEo- STATES PATENT oFFlc-E.

FRANK c. IvInYnns AND HANS s. oBnnNDoRrnn, or CINCINNATI, oIIIo.

ADVERTISING lDEVICE.

Application led July 19, 1926. Serial No. 123,427.

Our invention relates to advertising devices in general and particularlyto a string or web "dispensing device having incorporated with it, analarm adapted to be set od coincident with the dispensing oit the'stringIt is the object of our invention to provide an exceedingly simpledispensing containerwhich has connected with it a spool or pulley, overwhich the string or web is guided, which spool or pulley is operativelyconnected with an alarm which will be actuated as the string `or web isdispensed. ln the preferred embodiment illustrated, it is our object toprovide a string dispensing device having aV pulley over which Ythestring passes as it is dispensed, `and toV associate with the pulley asetv of clappers which will,

with the rotation of the pulley, strikeagainst the walls of a bell orother suitable alarm. The object of the alarm will be to attract theattention of customers to the advertising matter which will beprominently displayed on a part of the wrapping material dispensingcontainer.

Modifications which may be used to replace the bell as an alarm may beeither mechanically or electrically operated, and one specificmodification which incorporates the same broad idea, and which isdisclosed 1n v our (zo-pending application Serial #140,137,

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filed Oct. 7 1926, combines a light connected with a battery which isswitched on with `the operation ofthe switch, and which light shinesthrough which a moving figure, mechanically operated by a connectionwith the spool, may also be observed. y

Referring to the drawings in which we have disclosed the advertisingdevice in its simplest form:- f

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the string dispensing container. 7

Figure 2 is partial elevation from a different position with a portionof the container shown in section. i

. ters Patent is a transparency through Generally indicatedrat 1 is thecontainer which in the illustration shown is oit'y circular shape with.a top 2 through which the string is guided through a hole 3. Thecylindrical container has a handle 4 shaped as a bail by which thecontainer `may be suspended if desired. In the particular bailillustrated, there are two loops, a loop 5 by which the bail may besuspended over a nail or by means of a cord, and a loop 6 which acts asa guide for the .string as it is dispensed rom'the container. From theguiding loop 6 the string which is indicated at 7 vpasses about theperiphery of a spool 8 mounted on a pin 9 soldered tothe side oi thecontainer. Extending from an end of the spool are two clapper rods 10,whichk y i with the rotation o't the spool, strike against bells'llwhich are loosely mounted on a rod 12, which is also soldered to thecontainer.

As the string is dispensed, the spool will turn and the clappers willstrike against the bells, thereby calling thel attention of customers toan advertisement such as may be painted onthe container, and as isindicatedv at 13 in the drawings. v

Modifications in structure will readily occur to those skilled in the'art, but in so far asv such modifications incorporate mechanicalequivalent elements, we consider such changes to be within the scope ofour invention.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letstring dispenser comprising a container forv string, asupply of string, a guide `for said string `from the container toadispens- 'ingpositioru a rotatable member disposed in the path of saidstring aboutA which said, string is looped and an alarm opera-tivelyconnected' with said rotatable member,-l said alarm comprising at leastonev bell, and clappers. carried by said rotatable member adapted tostrike said bell.

' FRANK C. MEYERS.

HANS S. OBERNDORFER.

